Also: First Friday Gallery Night

The annual Twelfth Night Celebration returns at 7:30 p.m. Saturday to the Unitarian Church (corner of Buffalo and Aurora Streets) in downtown Ithaca.

An Ithaca tradition for more than three decades, the annual all-ages Twelfth Night Celebration is primarily an evening of storytelling in which the storytellers are members of the audience. Anyone is welcome to tell a story, and anyone is welcome to listen.

At some point in the evening, the storytelling will be interrupted by a band of traveling players from Syracuse — Bassett Street Hounds and the Thornden Morris — who will share a Mummers' Play, part of an age-old tradition. This will be followed by the choosing and crowning the Monarch of Twelfth Night (the Lord or Lady of Mis-rule). The monarch will then read the proclamation of pronouncements and predictions for2018.

Those attending are encouraged to bring a treat to share and a couple of dollars to share expenses.

Twelfth Night is presented by Ithaca's folk music community. For further information, contact Phil Shapiro at 607-844-4535 or pds10@cornell.edu.

First Friday to unveil latest exhibits

On Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. and later, Ithaca’s First Friday Gallery Night will offer a lineup of shows and events in and around the Commons.

Exhibits will include “The Art of Leonora Mims” at the New Roots Charter School; Tran Nu Vuong Linh’s “Collection” at Collegetown Bagels; and “ART with HEART // Portraiture that Celebrates People!” at the CAP ArtSpace in Center Ithaca.